Contributed by NYBlowhards. Posted by aubin on Monday, December 14, 2009 at 3:00 PM (EST)

Sources are reporting that a new biopic featuring Blink 182 is in production. The film is being spearheaded by director Brandon Flores who is a fan of the band and wants to give a glimpse into their early days, even if the members have yet to support the project.

As of right now, the film has a small $55,000 budget and has not secured the participation of the band or licensed their music. Mark Hoppus was asked about the project and said this:

No, I didn't know anything about the movie. I wonder how it pays? Should I try out for the part of Tom?

I saw that movie and I thought, 'The guys in Blink deserve a movie like that about them,' They have an awesome life, and they're one of my favorite bands. So the idea got in my head, and over the summer -- right around the time of the Blink reunion tour -- my friends and I started writing a script about their early days. We've been getting a lot of angry e-mails, people asking me why we're making a movie, if the guys in Blink are still alive or saying we're going around trying to make up history, since we weren't there at the beginning. I try to tell them that I'm a Blink fan, and I'm trying my best not to fuck up history. We've been getting help from a lot of fans who were there at the beginning. We want to do this right.

I think there is some dramatic potential that could be mined from the whole "underground band in the 90s signs to major label, suffers backlash, makes good" situation. Nothing terribly unoriginal, but it could work.

To make it specifically about Blink 182, however, is a monumentally goofy and misguided decision. What about their story is even the tiniest bit cinematic?

My point remains though, there's just even less conflict in the story of Blink 182 than I thought! All you've got left then is "privileged white kids in California start a band, sign to a major, get rich." Whoopdeeshit.

i respect this just for the absurd ambition behind it. i would tell myself i was simply delusional to try to make such a thing, about any band. for better worse or indifference i want to see this happen.

But, see, that's not entirely misguided. The Descendents are important in ways that Blink - as much as I liked them - will never be. A fan-driven retrospective documentary about them could be great, especially if it plays up the "I wasn't there, I want to find out what it was like" aspect.

A dramatic biopic about a third or fourth-generation pop punk band that had a few hit records in the cultural wasteland of the late-90s is fanboyism run amok and can only end in tears. Especially if the dude really thinks it can be done for less than $60 thousand.

There are better ways to spend $55,000 then a movie that doesn't, and shouldn't ever be made. Fuck, make a documentary if you feel like you really have to tell the untold orgins of Blink 182, but a feature film? This has got to be one of the dumbest ideas in recent memory.

If you are going to choose a band from the 90s to make a biopic about, the first ones that come to mind is Sublime or Nirvana. You got everything there, drama, drugs, fame, overdoses, and tragedy. All the makings for a great biopic.

Either way this thing isn't happening. I'm surprised this was even posted as news. The band didn't even know about it and it was reported on some noname website. It basically has no budget and will most likely be shot on a home video camera.

Remember when flannel shirts and NIN T-shirts and Daria type chicks and Alt Rock and grundge and long hair and Metallica and moping around like an angsty loser was the mainstream of pop-culture? Breaking free of that in the mid 90's at 15 years old and getting into MxPx and Blink-182 and Bouncing Souls and Operation Ivy and whatever the hell else made me feel like I was a part of something much more fun and cool. It's hard to explain to people who got into punk rock post "Enema" and beyond what it was like to listen to fast skate punk music when most of your friends were still stuck on Billy Corgan and shit. It was like an underground smirk in the face of a frown on teen culture.

It all turned upsidedown towards the millennium as pop-punk became a sensation and copycat little preppie brats spouted up everywhere, but I'll never forget what it felt like knowing the words to "Touchdown Boy" with that one other kid in school who knew who they were and stuff.